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Debt, Housing, and Grift

The mood today is pretty simple: Americans are borrowing like crazy, paying more for less, and somehow still getting sold fairy tales. And the wild part is a lot of this isn't even hidden. It's right there in the numbers.

Consumer credit pressure

Student loans that never end

The saving problem nobody wants to admit

Why nobody teaches the useful stuff

Housing as a vault, not a home

Why building gets absurdly expensive

Renting versus buying right now

California's giant infrastructure embarrassment

Homelessness spending without results

Universities, majors, and job risk

Crypto nonsense and…

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